Word: awe
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...such essentials as a sense of irony or humor. An observer of otters at mealtime (all day) might argue about the sense of humor. But it is certainly true that compared with the throbbing of insistent newness--city life--one's responses to the natural world, such as peace, awe and piety, are pretty tame...
Another dismally awe-inspiring legacy of our 20th century obsession with water development has been the gradual disappearance of southern Louisiana. When the first irrigated civilizations were appearing in contemporary Iraq and Pakistan about 5,000 years ago, the Gulf of Mexico was roughly where New Orleans now sits. The Gulf, like all the other seas, had been rising since the last Ice Age, but the Mississippi River dumped 18 billion truckloads of sediment at the Gulf's door in the time it took the seas to rise a foot. It was (and still is) one of the planet...
...tool of the right-wing __ machine" 11. Make public 12. Help a checker 15. Is afflicted with 17. Islamic title 19. Apt. feature, in classifieds 20. Billionaire Broad, who has donated $1 million to the Democratic National Convention committee 21. Either Griffey 23. Luau offering 25. Sound of awe 26. La __ Tar Pits 27. Omaha Beach craft 28. "Caught you!" 29. Cook in a microwave 32. One in a pen, perhaps 33. Greenskeeper's supply 36. Pink-slip 38. Juan Miguel Gonzalez's lawyer Gregory __ 39. Japan's new Prime Minister 40. Writer LeShan 41. Card game for three...
...like The Ohio State Murders makes it impossible to ignore. Ultimately, Stern and Kennedy were right to draw this most troubling layer of human cruelty out of an already troubling script-and to draw it out with such beautiful, stark imagery that we cannot help but watch in horrified awe. Although it is Alexander's children who are murdered in Kennedy's play, it is Alexander herself that the American educational system tries to kill though an unnameable suffocation. And lest we think America has moved beyond such quietly murderous systems of racism, at least in its highest and most...
HOFFMAN: Of course, I accept that science has limits--and may even be up against them in some fields. But I believe there is still room for science, even on its grandest scale, that awe-inspiring discoveries will continue to be made over this millennium. The mathematician Ronald Graham once said, "Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions." Sounds reasonable, except when...